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With the WWE Universe heading to Fastlane for the biggest show of the month of October… at least until next week’s edition of NXT, fans were afforded an intro for the show from none other than Pat McAfee, a man who knows a thing or two about the Hoosier state from his time as an […]

After weeks of anticipation, WWE is officially taking the express lane to Indianapolis for its first proper main roster Premium Live Event of the fall, Fastlane. With three titles on the line, grudge matches on the books, and at least one surprise in store for fans regarding who will be the final member in the […]

Though it’s become somewhat overshadowed by Tuesday’s edition of NXT, a show fans have joked has a WrestleMania-esque card, Fastlane has officially landed in the WWE Universe, and fans are beyond hyped to see how the first proper Premium Live Event of the fall shakes out. With just five matches booked for the show, including […]

Why is John Cena back in WWE in 2023? Is it to simply collect a paycheck while his union, SAG-AFTRA, is currently on strike? Or is he instead in pursuit of the Intercontinental Championship, the only title keeping him from becoming a Grand Slam Champion in the WWE Universe under the modern rules? No, the […]

With Fastlane rapidly approaching, LA Knight decided to address the WWE Universe in the opening segment of SmackDown, telling fans how he feels about tag teaming with John Cena, about earning another huge match at a Premium Live Event, and most importantly of all, about The Bloodline, a faction he suddenly has to deal with […]

When Adam Copeland took the ring in the main event of the first AEW Dynamite of the month of October, it served as an inflection point in modern professional wrestling history. Afforded extra time to address the crowd from TBS, the “Rated-R Superstar” explained why he decided to leave WWE – shouting out his daughters, […]

After taking a loss to “The Man” Becky Lynch at No Mercy, fans have begun to wonder what Tiffany Stratton, the former NXT Women’s Champion, would do next in the WWE Universe. Would she wrestle Lynch once more, looking for a third match at, say, Deadl1ne, NXT’s next big Premium Live Event coming to fans […]

After exclusively working separately as members of the RAW roster, albeit due to no fault of their own, Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano officially reunited on the WWE main roster as #DIY, reforming the prolific NXT tag team that fans have been begging to see since Johnny Wrestling returned in August of 2022. Stopping by […]

Mick Foley is an eclectic man. Sure, he’s most known for his time in professional wrestling, where he defined the hardcore genre with his incredible efforts as Cactus Jack on the indies, and then developed not one, not two, but three unique personas in WWE under the Mankind and Dude Love monikers, but Foley is […]

When John Cena takes the ring for his second Premium Live Event of the year – his third if you count serving as a quest referee for Payback – at Fastlane, he will be standing alongside one of the most unlikely WWE success stories of the last few years: LA Knight. That’s right, unlike Cena, […]

After truly embodying what it means to be a part-time over the past few years, it’s really been nice to have John Cena back as a full-time member of SmackDown over the last month or so. Sure, it’s not like Cena’s been hanging out at home, watching TV and taking a shot anytime his voice […]

After announcing a flurry of additions to next week’s NXT card, with John Cena, Asuka, and Cody Rhodes all heading down to Orlando to help guarantee a ratings win over a rare Tuesday edition of AEW Dynamite dubbed Title Tuesday, Shawn Michaels decided to throw one final breadcrumb to the fans who stuck it out […]

When news broke that the October 11th edition of AEW Dynamite would be moved up a day to October 10th in order to correspond with the MLB Playoffs at WrestleDream, everyone was going to be totally normal about it, right? Things weren’t going to develop into the old Wednesday Night Wars that Cody Rhodes liked […]

When news broke that Adam Copeland‘s contract with WWE was coming to an end, fans from around the world started to imagine all sorts of different matches for the man formerly known as Edge, with the 31-time champion already having a list of his own with 14 wrestlers he’d like to throw down with in […]

When Swerve Strickland jumped ship from WWE to AEW following his and the rest of Hit Row’s release from the SmackDown roster in 2021, excitement was intense. After turning himself into a legitimate star in NXT both as a singles star and with his band of buddies under the watchful eye of Paul “Triple H: […]

Paul Heyman is recognized as one of the greatest managers in the history of professional wrestling. Behind the scenes, he’s a genius when it comes to storytelling. On-screen, he’s one of the most prominent characters who isn’t an actual WWE wrestler. Over the years,  Heyman has managed some of wrestling’s biggest names. Brock Lesnar, CM […]

After spending the better part of three decades as a professional wrestler, it’s safe to say Edge has pretty much done everything a performer could hope to do in the sport, right? Sure, the man born and now wrestling under the name Adam Copeland has exclusively wrestled for WWE during the duration of his mainstream […]

After taking part in an incredibly brutal Extreme Rules match with Tiffany Stratton at No Mercy that resulted in a gigantic gash that oozed some sort of an orange substance – don’t look it up if you’re squeamish – Becky Lynch was forced to postpone her match with Tegan Nox on RAW until she was […]

When Adam “Edge” Copeland made his debut in AEW during the final moments of WrestleDream, it got the entire wrestling industry buzzing. Suddenly, after spending 25 years – literally – in WWE, the “Rated-R Superstar” was free to flex the creative juices fans have known were hiding right under the surface for years now in […]

After watching his best friend Trick Williams stand in the ring with the man who beat him at No Mercy, Ilja Dragunov, Carmelo Hayes was feeling a certain type of way. Sure, he was happy for his friend, as Trick Willie was happy for him during his title reigns, but after being “Him” in their […]

Cody Rhodes has officially been back in WWE since WrestleMania 38, when he secured his first of multiple wins over “The Visionary” Seth Rollins before the latter turned babyface in 2023. Since that fateful night in Dallas, Texas, Rhodes has wrestled 102 matches, a number that would be higher if he didn’t lose half of […]

When news broke that Jade Cargill was heading to WWE after establishing herself as one of the more interesting performers in professional wrestling as a member of AEW, fans wondered how Paul “Triple H” Levesque would debut his newest Superstar. Would she go to NXT, having to have her character and gimmick altered ever so […]

When Adam Copeland, aka Edge of WWE, made his debut in AEW at the end of WrestleDream, fans effectively watched in real time as he filled the spot abdicated by CM Punk following his firing after All In. Now sure, technically, Punk and Copeland are kind of like apples and oranges, as the former is […]

Whether Grayson Waller wrestles one more match or 1,000 in the WWE Universe, he will forever get to tell his friends and family that his first match on the main roster came against Edge, the “Rated-R Superstar,” in the main event of SmackDown at Maddison Square Garden. Working a program that was short but sweet, […]

When Edge was kicked out of the Judgment Day by Finn Balor, Rhea Ripley, Damian Priest, and, eventually, “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio, it began the slow but steady transition from a full-time heel manager to a part-timer with no viable path to the main event picture, let alone the mid-card titles. Discussing his addition to the […]

With a Last Man Standing match officially booked for Fastlane against “The King of Strong Style,” Shinsuke Nakamura, Seth Rollins was booked for a very special segment on RAW with Michael Cole to discuss why on earth he’s willing to subject himself to such physical punishment when he has so much life left to live. […]

After two incredibly impactful weeks away from the WWE Universe following the rare physical beatdown at the hands of Nia Jax, Rhea Ripley returned to RAW in a big way on the second day of October, disrupting the first match on the card between the “Irresistible Force” and Shayna Baszler before demanding the rest of […]

When news broke that the Bellas, Nikki and Brie, were finishing up their contracts with WWE sans any sort of an extension in favor of hitting it independently under their given names, Nikkie and Brie Garcia, it felt like only a matter of time before the duo joined the latter’s husband, Bryan Danielson, in AEW. […]

When CM Punk debuted the “Real” AEW World Championship – aka the AXW Championship – it was meant to ruffle a few feathers. Sure, the idea behind the belt was sound, or at least sound-ish, as Collision was being positioned as the SmackDown to Dynamite‘s RAW, with a “main” title needed to give the Saturday-only […]

After booking a blistering four-hour Pay-Per-View filled to the gills with technical spectacles, high-flying heroics, and one of the most hotly anticipated debuts of the year in the form of WWE Hall of Famer Edge, Tony Khan decided to keep the AEW fun going with a media scrum for the ages, with the exact runtime […]

After weeks and weeks of anticipation, plus a pretty sweet sendoff match with Sheamus, it finally happened: Edge, or, should I say, the man formerly known as Edge, Adam Copeland, made his long-awaited debut in AEW. That’s right, taking the ring at the end of WrestleDream with a Darby Allin-produced vignette to announce his arrival, […]

Ever since MJF and Adam Cole started cutting video packages like they were working for Paul “Triple H” Levesque in prime-era NXT, a small but passionate subset of the AEW audience have been begun to compare their work to that of Roman Reigns, The Usos, Solo Sikoa, and Paul Heyman, aka The Bloodline. Now granted, […]

When news broke that “The Man” herself, Becky Lynch, was going to headline No Mercy with her match against Tiffany Stratton, it turned more than a few heads around the professional wrestling world. Sure, the decision to give Lynch the main event spot over a similarly deserving bout featuring Ilja Dragunov and Carmleo Hayes for […]

After watching Trick Williams return to the NXT locker room with his newly won North American Championship around his waist, Carmelo Hayes knew the pressure was on to keep his championship reign alive at No Mercy. Facing off against one of the most prolific performers on the NXT roster, with a commanding win over Gunther […]

After running through the ranks of the NXT Global Heritage Cup Invitational as the clear, clean winner of the A block, it looked like things were shaking up perfectly for a huge return win for Butch in NXT at No Mercy. Sure, the performer formerly known as Pete Dunne has found success as of late […]

When the Creed Brothers were reinstated in NXT at the end of August following an odd feud with Schism, it felt like surely Shawn Michaels and company had something planned for the collegiate grappling standouts, maybe even at No Mercy. Sure, the tag team, with Ivy Nile by their side, had found plenty of success […]

When Dominik Mysterio took the ring against Trick Williams in the second match of NXT No Mercy, the deck, as they say, was stacked against him. He had no Mami, he had no Judgment Day by his side, he had a biased referee in Dragon Lee, and, most crucially of all, he had to prepare […]

After making his way out to the NXT No Mercy ring wearing Ghost Rider-inspired gear and riding a motorcycle like vintage Undertaker – except his American Bada** looked a lot more like an American Bumba** – Baron Corbin found himself immediately thrust into action by Bron Breakker, who laid out the one-time SmackDown Superstar with […]

After working a highly contested match at The Great American Bash with the NXT Championship on the line, a match some say Trick Williams impacted in a way that severely assisted the champion, Ilja Dragunov and Carmelo Hayes will hit the mat once more at No Mercy, this time, with pride, more so than the […]